Wisconsin Supreme Court Decisions 2022
Date: December 28, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001124
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court interpreted, for the first time, Wisconsin's product liability statute, Wis. Stat. 895.047, created in 2011, when the claim is for defective design, holding that the statute's plain language is clear in…
Date: December 22, 2022
Docket Number: 2022AP000830-D
Date: December 9, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000142-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court to deny Defendant's motion to suppress, holding that the police officer in this case did not have particularized…
Date: November 25, 2022
Docket Number: 2022AP000998-D
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002184-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of operating while intoxicated (OWI) sixth offense, in violation of Wis. Stat. 346.63(1)(a), holding that Defendant's constitutional right to be free from abusive…
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001014-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming both Defendant's judgment of conviction and the circuit court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence, holding that police officers'…
Date: November 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000033-D
Date: November 22, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001696
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the order of the circuit court denying the City of Milwaukee's motion to dismiss this action brought by Saint John's Communities for recovery of…
Date: November 4, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000128
Date: October 26, 2022
Docket Number: 2022AP001736-W
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted Petitioner's petition for a supervisory writ claiming that petitions for leave to appeal filed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Rise, Inc. in Kormanik v. Wisconsin Elections…
Date: July 8, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001032
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court requiring disclosure of Plaintiffs' identities to opposing attorneys while allowing Plaintiffs to keep their names sealed and confidential as to the public and…
Date: July 8, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001616-D
Date: July 8, 2022
Docket Numbers: 2021AP001382, 2021AP001343
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order and judgment of the circuit court in this case concerning whether local health officers may lawfully issue public health orders, holding that local health officers have statutory…
Date: July 8, 2022
Docket Number: 2022AP000091
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case concerning two documents created by employees of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) that authorized municipal clerks and local election officials to establish ballot drop boxes the Supreme Court held…
Date: July 7, 2022
Docket Number: 2018AP002205
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Ella's motion for a postdispositional motion to stay juvenile sex offender registration, holding that…
Date: July 7, 2022
Docket Numbers: 2021AP001325, 2021AP001321-LV
Justia Opinion Summary: In this action contesting the merits of the Public Service Commission's (PSC) approval of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line the Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court, holding that, the court…
Date: July 6, 2022
Docket Number: 2018AP000942-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Defendant's postconviction motion but reversing the denial of Defendant's…
Date: July 6, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP000096
Justia Opinion Summary: In this public records case concerning attorneys fees, a majority of the Supreme Court adopted the principle that to "prevail in whole or insubstantial part" under Wis. Stat. 19.37(2)(a) means that the party must obtain…
Date: July 6, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000192-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case regarding the interpretation of Wis. Stat. 939.46(1m) and the scope of the "affirmative defense for any offense committed as a direct result" of human or child sex trafficking the Supreme Court held that the…
Date: July 5, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000029-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's sentence of two years of initial confinement and two years of extended supervision imposed after he pled no contest to one of six charges of sexual assault, holding that each of the…
Date: July 5, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000307
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute over the proper compensation for a temporary limited easement (TLE) that Waukesha County acquired over Gregory Backus's property to construct a highway bypass along the Backus property's rear lot line the…
Date: July 1, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002065-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the circuit court convicting Defendant on the charge of first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon and being…
Date: June 30, 2022
Docket Numbers: 2019AP000534, 2019AP000299
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing orders of the circuit court dismissing challenges brought by the Friends of the Black River Forest and Claudia Bricks (collectively, the Friends)…
Date: June 30, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000485
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court declining to decide whether a letter from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) constituted an unpromulgated…
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000419
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals to reverse the judgment of the circuit court denying the State's request to have X.S. waived into adult court and to remand the case, holding that remand…
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP001673
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court dismissing this action for quo warrants and declaratory judgment relief alleging that Frederick Prehn unlawfully held a position on the Wisconsin Board of…
Date: June 28, 2022
Docket Number: 2022AP000645-D
Date: June 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001007
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's dismissal of Petitioner's petition for judicial review of two letters issued by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on…
Date: June 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001033
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing as moot S.A.M.'s appeal of the order extending his voluntary commitment (recommitment) and affirmed the recommitment order, holding that the…
Date: June 23, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000878-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to suppress evidence, including a handgun, obtained as a result of an investigative…
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002095
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming an order of the circuit court that granted partial summary judgment to Riverworks City Center, LLC after determining that Great Lakes Excavating,…
Date: June 21, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001565-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for one count of second-degree sexual assault and one count of misdemeanor bail jumping, holding that the circuit court erred in admitting the victim's testimony…
Date: June 21, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001876-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's convictions on fifteen counts of sexual assault, fourteen of which consisted of first-degree and second-degree sexual assault of a…
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002150-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals summarily affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting the State's motion to dismiss the operating while intoxicated (OWI) count against Defendant…
Date: June 10, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000006
Justia Opinion Summary: M.W. has been under Wis. Stats. ch. 51 mental health commitment orders since 2006. In August 2020, Sheboygan County again filed a petition to extend her commitment and sought an order for involuntary medication and…
Date: June 7, 2022
Docket Numbers: 2020AP002103-AC, 2020AP002081-AC
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the public records law's general prohibition on pre-release judicial review of decisions to provide access to public records barred the claims brought by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce…
Date: June 3, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001850-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Wisconsin's operating while intoxicated (OWI) graduated-penalty scheme is unconstitutional to the extent it counts prior revocations for refusing to submit to a warrantless blood draw as…
Date: June 1, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000463
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court denying the motion to dismiss this complaint brought by Colectivo Coffee Roasters against Society Insurance, holding that the district court…
Date: May 26, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001046-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals that reversed in part the decision of the circuit court and determined that Defendant alleged sufficient facts so as to entitle him to an evidentiary…
Date: May 25, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP001106-D
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000704
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that disorderly conduct is not a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence under federal law and therefore does not disqualify a person from holding a license to carry a concealed weapon (CCW…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000298-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part the decision of the court of appeals automatically staying the circuit court's order of commitment for treatment with the involuntary administration of medication after finding…
Date: May 6, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000202
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the district court granting Defendants' motion for the application of Wis. Stat. Chapter 655 and dismissing the wrongful death…
Date: April 20, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001058-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the circuit court granting Defendant's motion collaterally attacking two prior convictions from 1995 and 2002, holding that the lack of a transcript meant that Defendant retained…
Date: April 15, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP001450-OA
Justia Opinion Summary: In this original action filed by Petitioners to remedy malapportionment in Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts the Supreme Court held that the maps proposed by the Wisconsin Legislature were race…
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001618
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Review for the City of Kenosha classifying certain property as residential, holding that the Board's determination to sustain the residential classification was…
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP001271-AC
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals, which summarily affirmed the decision of the circuit court affirming the results of a referendum recount conducted pursuant to Wis. Stat. 9.01, holding…
Date: March 24, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001317-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court suppressing the results of a sheriff's deputy's blood test performed on Defendant but allowing the State to…
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001671
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court ruled that Cree, Inc. did not unlawfully discriminate against Derrick Palmer based on his conviction record by rescinding its job offer, holding that Cree sufficiently established that the circumstances…
Date: March 4, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000940
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Brown County's sales and use tax ordinance was consistent with Wis. Stat. 77.70 and therefore lawful and that there was no error in the proceedings below. Brown County Taxpayers Association…
Date: March 3, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP001450-OA
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court adopted proposed remedial state senate and state assembly maps submitted by Governor Tony Evers in response to the Court's call for proposed maps for the set of districts where new district boundaries…
Date: March 1, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002205
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals that applied the doctrine of forfeiture as the basis for its reversal of the circuit court's vacatur of Loren Imhoff Homebuilder, Inc.'s arbitral award…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002090
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of the Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC) in this action brought by Claudia Bauer seeking the removal of a natural-gas line…
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Numbers: 2019AP001833-CR, 2019AP001832-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decisions of the circuit court and court of appeals ordering two not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI) commitment periods to run consecutively, holding that circuit court…
Date: February 15, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001320
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's grant of summary judgment in favor of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and instead granting summary judgment in…
Date: January 27, 2022
Docket Number: 2021AP000802
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents and enjoining Petitioners from issuing payments under two contracts for legal services, holding that the circuit…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: 2018AP001476-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's sentence for his second-degree intentional homicide conviction, holding that Defendant failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the circuit court relied on an improper…
Date: January 26, 2022
Docket Number: 2020AP000520
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Department of Workforce Development rejecting Eden Senior Care's application to succeed the unemployment insurance account of Friendly Village Nursing and Rehab's previous…
Date: January 19, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP002236
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this petition for review of a decision of the court of appeals affirming a circuit court order that certified a class and appointed Timothy Rave as class representative, holding that this case…
Date: January 14, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001206
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming an order of the circuit court that domesticated a Mexican judgment in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and against Daniel and Jane Hennessy,…
Date: January 6, 2022
Docket Number: 2019AP001365
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed as modified the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's grant of summary judgment to Defendants and dismissing Plaintiff's claims that Defendants violated Wis. Stat.…
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